Vasilevskiy
The cat will be back
I would bet money on my team. 1000-1 chance? Wtf?
We could very easily make this interesting. Whoever wins gets their choice of draft pick in the first league draft.Haha maybe we should set up some betting. I'll be making the first video likely tomorrow to give rmac some time in case he wanted something specific.
What I'll do in the first video is go over the season preview, show all the teams and their tactics, and kind of explain how I'll run the matches. Then I'll do one matchday per video (including in the first) and it goes through every game successively. I'll be running them on extended highlights with only replays on goals so you don't have to endure too much of my (very poor) commentary (or you can mute it, w/e). Then I'll upload the video to youtube and post a thread
EDIT - if RMAC is in today I might even do the first matchday tonight.
We could very easily make this interesting. Whoever wins gets their choice of draft pick in the first league draft.
I think we can wait 3 hours lolIs it cool with people if I post my team by 11ish tonight ? This weekend got strangely busy for the apocalypse and I would like to add some more depth to what I got. Then things can start tomorrow?
I could also put up a team sheet sooner and then add more writing and stuff to it later tonight when I got some more time.
Thoughts?
@The Abusement Park I think if you're going to trade away a talent like Haaland, and thank you for trading with me and credit to you for recognizing his talent and taking him when you did, you need to do better with the picks you were given. From a picks perspective you had a lot to work with too. For me Fernandes was fine when you took him, but I don't think Kante was a wise choice there. He's a good partner for Fernandes because he provides defensive cover, but you should have picked differently. I think you'd get more goals than you speculated out of your front three. That said I'm not a fan of Lukaku and you don't have great depth for the future there either unless you shift Rashford over. Rashford was a good pick, but you already know that. Your formation makes sense with just about everyone in their right place (not Olmo) and your side looks well balanced. I think the biggest issues I have are you'd be pretty reliant on Fernandes and in the future you'd be short on attacking players.
Yeah somewhat early on in the draft I knew that my attack was going to be the weakest part of my team. The only player I regret picking(in a sense) is kante since all the elite strikers went immediately after him and there was a chance I could’ve had him+ Dybala/Aguero which makes my team look a whole lot better. In saying that I have a ST(even if you don’t like him) who’s a guaranteed 20+ goals a year, a LW who looks like 20 goal 5-10 assist guy, a RW who’s 10-10 and an AM who could be 10-15 goal 10 assist guy.
I do think my team while set up in a 443 has a lot of balance and can be used effectively in multiple formations to utilize all my players pretty well. And while I do think that my defense and midfield can handle just about any team in the draft it’s pretty obvious my offense will be my Achilles heel.
@les Habs I appreciate the feedback. I think the KDB pick was the correct call at the time. All the strikers did get scooped up early I thought i would've had the opportunity to get Lautaro, it obviously didn't happen. The players you have grips with weren't my first choices (you stole my first choice lol). The GLC pick was the hardest pick I had to make but I think your being harsh on my team's ability to score which they would do just fine as a committee. They also would get bailed out by Icardi plan B. I thought of trading Bobby but honestly just didn't put in the time to formulate a trade. Wanted Sane for him but quickly figured it wasn't possible. Still going forward my team should score enough... I'm obviously biased though. I do agree I don't think I have one of the best teams. I liked it up until I saw Vaslievsky and LITN both teams at a glance look like the cream of the crop.
I honestly think there’s a chance he wouldn’t have been drafted if you didn’t take him. Good player but I think he’s a bit underrated and with the likes of Rice not being picked it’s definitely a possibility.Before I post team, feel free to rip on my round 6 pre game...get it over with, I recognize it was a reach and a half . Tielemens is a solid player and O'm happy I got him, although it was definitely early.
Same. I was planning on taking him probably 3 rounds after he was taken.I drafted Tielemans a couple times before, so he wouldn't have been undrafted as I would have done so again.
@Venkman It always suck having to deal with Venkman in these drafts. Dude always puts together solid teams and never talks. It's like he just shows up when it's all said and done and plops down this good team. Easily one of the most consistent guys here. Anyone else taking Van Dijk there probably would have been hurt by such a pick, but of course you were not. Overall I think your tactics and formation all make sense. Hummels and Van Dijk should be switched though (unless you guys are purposely inverting your CBs in which case I'd love to know why). That would make your left side more susceptible though. Overall I don't think you have best players in the World (Van Dijk aside), but good ones the whole way through. Your bench provides some good cover too. My question marks are around certain players (Dembele's injury history, Vinicius Jr's true ceiling, Eriksen's current ability) and how good your team would be in the future. Right now I would think your team would be quite competitive, but down the road not as much.
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Yeah I’ll probably start those up tomorrowAre we still doing the specific league drafts? @SJSharks39